Comments on: Lunchtime Quiz: Semi-Obscure Punctuation Marks

By: Pol x

Pol x — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:25:06 +0000

80%

I confused the chevron and the caret.

By: greenstrawberries

greenstrawberries — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:20:57 +0000

Yay! I knew my French education/bilingualism would come in handy during some quiz! ‘Guillemets’ is how you say ‘quotation marks’ in French. Granted I got most of the rest of them wrong, but I was guessing.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:59:07 +0000

I thought I had done better than 50%, but that’s above the average, so yay, I guess.

By: S

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:51:37 +0000

30%

I got the dagger and the carat on my own, and I knew of the interrobang from the mental_floss book What’s the Difference?

By: Aemi

Aemi — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:33:53 +0000

Oooh, an 80! Got the guillemets and the chevron reversed. I vote for the inclusion of the interrobang – it’s obvious we need it, isn’t it‽

By: the creature

the creature — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:39:55 +0000

wow, i really sucked at this one.

3/10

By: kate

kate — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:56:05 +0000

@ Roger

They did work! Many thanks! :)

By: MH

MH — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:22:15 +0000

Pilcrow… thanks for the new bit of useless trivia. :) I use these every day, but everybody I know just calls them paragraph marks.

(Incidentally, because of that little slip, I got an 80.)

By: Delia

Delia — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:32:36 +0000

I got 100% as well, Marty.

And when are irony symbols ever used for anything? I mean, outside the context of this one quiz, I’ve never seen one in my life.

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:28:58 +0000

The only two I didn’t guess at I got right.